is there a movie for the book i have lived a thousand years

The first, replete with famous names, finds the djinn making nice to the Queen of Sheba, only to be usurped by the arrival of Solomon, if you please. The highlights are all historical flashbacks. What happens is that almost nothing happens. Alithea stays in her room in Istanbul, orders breakfast, listens to the djinn recounting the highlights of his existence, and later bears him back to London in another bottle. The movie, though a frantic treat for the retina, is also oddly inactive. So confidently did it hare along, with each perilous incident and every change of landscape jacking up the momentum, that Miller’s decision to do things differently in “Three Thousand Years of Longing” feels proudly perverse.

This is Miller’s first film since “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015), which sucked the breath from the lungs of innumerable viewers and struck them as the very definition of an action flick. His lower limbs, like Pan’s, are goatishly hirsute. Brisk and bobbed, neither a wife nor a mother, she lives in London but is currently in Istanbul, delivering a lecture on “Adventures in Narratology.” (That could be an alternative title for the film.) The vessel, unstoppered in her hotel bathroom, releases a djinn (Idris Elba), who has a soothing manner and pointed ears, one of which has had a bite taken out of it, perhaps in a magical catfight. Her name is derived from the Greek for “truth”-a quiet joke, given the tallness of the tales that she prefers.

Time is of the essence in George Miller’s new movie, “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” and the essence is kept in a bottle, which is found in a Turkish bazaar by Alithea (Tilda Swinton). “Ten thousand years will give you such a crick in the neck!” he cries, sprung at last from his lamp. The opening statement of Robin Williams’s genie, in “Aladdin” (1992), tells of a painful detention. What matters is that, once you’re in the job, you’re there for life, although be warned: that life may not be as freewheeling as you’d like. Maybe you get a MacArthur Genie Grant or something. How you become a genie is anyone’s guess.

Is there a movie for the book i have lived a thousand years